Islamic art, especially the arts of Iran and Central Asia, the art and architecture produced under the Mongols, calligraphy and books. Professor Blair teaches about all aspects of Islamic art from the ...

Not the least of her qualifications for the post was her handwriting—the cult of calligraphy amounting almost to a religion at court. Love affairs often began by some chance view of a lady’s ...

books had illustrations, calligraphy was considered an art in itself. For readers of medicine at the time, those published in the Islamic world were fascinating to read. From 661 to 750 AD ...

Muslim scholars collected and translated books from ... across the Islamic world and beyond. Image caption, This is the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. It shows how Arabic calligraphy and geometric ...

Calligraphy is a type of decorative handwriting ... These patterns can be seen on everything from rugs and pottery to decoration in books. Islamic art has been around for more than 1000 years.